Do you know about the Danish company House Doctor?  If so why have you kept them from me?  I think this chain of stores would do a bang up business in the States. There’s only about ten thousand items in their virtual catalogs that I would shell out my hard earned cash for.  They even have a section dedicated to ribbon! Here’s a link so you too can pine for some House Doctor too.

I owned a pair of white Minnetonka mocc’s when I was 8.  I thought they were the moon and stars of shoes, so cool, especially with their seed beed embellishment in a ubiquitous Thunderbird pattern. Nothing says Native American quite like white mocc’s and a Thunderbird thrown in for good measure, right?  I have been pining for a new pair for a while now, I bought some cheap imitations last year and they proceeded to fall apart within a week–lesson learned. I would have picked up a pair sooner but I am having trouble choosing a color.  The natural is always a safe bet but the scarlet ones are this side of sassy.  I think they are perfect for walking the girls, going to the grocery or whatever errand that concerns shoes and not thinking too hard about what I am going to wear.  I would like to wear them with a striped tissue cotton t-shirt, olive cargo jeans and this necklace to complete the ‘ I’m not thinking too hard about what I am wearing’ ensemble.

I took this recently, the City of Angels it seems was late on the falling leaf trend that had swept the nation a few months prior. I love the idea of always having a camera at the ready to capture a memory.  I carried a tiny Canon Elph for many moons but even though it was diminutive in size it was such a chore for this lazy bones to bother to fish it out of her over-sized bag, take it out of its case, shoot and then have enough energy left over to download and edit the photo.  The Iphone makes it so easy for me to shoot, edit, send to Flickr and call it a day. Memory preserved in 2 seconds flat, maybe 3. 

I received an email the other day from Miss Mary M. that asked if I was still posting cute animals on Monday’s and if so she was kind enough to include a link to a cute baby animal.  I do think when you send a link of a baby owl in a knit cap that you need to accompany it with a warning *this may kill you with cuteness*. I can guarantee that I have never seen a cuter baby owl, with or without a knit cap, this little guy/gal takes the prize for cuteness this Monday morn.

I am finding it hard to articulate my sheer delight at the existence of this fine tome– Encyclopedia of Exquisite by one Jessica Kerwin Jenkins so I shall allow the lovely Ms. Kerwin Jenkins to do so:

Each of the Encyclopedia‘s 100 entries points to a different way to be happy, whether that means wearing a top hat, eating a luscious pear, luxuriating in a bath full of warm milk, or keeping a singing cricket as a pet.

A perfect gift for a lady, an ephemera addict, history buff, design enthusiast or the like.  I can not wait to open my copy up on Christmas morning hint, hint…